Chinese Blogger Con 2007

Dr. Pan Haidong
CEO and founder of Hoodong.com
I shouldn’t be here, he said, I don’t even have a blog
Something about hemorrhoids…
I didn’t get it but everyone else did!

‘I promise to wrap this up within 30 minutes’
And please respect me, he says, and so I gave Beifeng a sharp elbow in the ribs (he was sneaking a call)

Hoodong.com (“We do CHINESE WIKI”) is:
-the largest Chinese-language wiki in the world
-with 2,000,000 articles
-5,000,000 edits
-20,200,000,000 Chinese characters

-Hoodong sits in a rather awkward position
-Up against Chinese Wikipedia
-Started in July 2005
-Something like Wiki needs to localize before it can localize
-All the people he’s talked to, Jimmy Wales etc., have all agreed with that
-But how?
-HDWiki is the most-used Chinese wiki software
-Clear goal to make a brand name, and so on
-Characteristic of Chinese internet is focus on the entertainment (QQ)
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[btw this guy is really funny, but a lot of the jokes r flying over my head...tomorrow I'm sitting at the back]
-HDWiki has been downloaded 200,000 times
-Hoodong is not responsible for zh.Wikipedia’s having been blocked (funny but serious too)

He’s got a picture of the Chinese Great Encyclopedia Complete Edition as it was from 1978-1993, shiny faded yellow plasticized hard covers…20,672 peoples’ efforts…77,859 entries….19800 RMB （approx. USD 2,655.00)

Wikinomics has had huge impact on him and his company, and he sees it as relevant to social development.

“Veni, Vedi, Wiki”
Pan Haidong
phd@hoodong.com

-emphasizing the import of applied wiki in education, for teachers, students and parents

Jenny’s looking for a woman to put forth a question
Asks Pan to give some examples
One teacher in Wenzhou, had students type 1-1o out for her, to see how far they’d progressed

Up on the irc overhead screen someone has written: ‘wikis with no users are not good wikis’

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